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Location : Midland, MI
Job Type : Full-Time
Job Number : 03388
Division : Academic Administration and Support Services
Department : Center for Excellence
Opening Date : 01 / 15 / 2025
Closing Date : Continuous
Roles
Northwood University seeks a dynamic individual with strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with faculty and staff to support learning initiatives as the Instructional Designer. The Instructional Designer will contribute to the development, design, and delivery of University course offerings and assist the Center for Excellence and faculty with various course and curriculum projects.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop courses in collaboration with subject matter experts for credit, non-credit, corporate training, badging, certifications and other curriculum initiatives.
- Ensure alignment of learning objectives with course objectives and program outcomes across the curriculum.
- Ensure application of universal design across modalities and course types for development of engaging, meaningful experiences for learners.
- Make recommendations for assessments and activities to promote instructional excellence.
- Collaborate with faculty, subject matter experts, and Center for Excellence staff on recommendations for incorporation of course resources and design to engage diverse learners.
- Manage course design projects as assigned and complete updates of designed courses to maintain currency and relevancy.
- Assist in development and delivery of faculty development sessions and training.
- Support the Center for Excellence in providing faculty support across the University.
- Complete other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
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Expectations
Northwood University is a teaching-focused university with HLC and ACBSP accreditation offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in business-related disciplines. Northwood University has an institutional philosophy known as the "Northwood Idea," which emphasizes individual freedom and responsibility, moral law, ethical and limited government, earned success and the importance of creativity, free enterprise and entrepreneurship as the foundation of individual and human progress. The successful candidate will embrace, and will promote, the philosophy of the University and its commitment to the American free-enterprise system when conducting business on behalf of the University. Applicants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the University's outcomes at
